LPM: Not so quiet on the western front...

[Matt Cashner]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Janine wrote:


> undef @bigarray is not freeing up memory as I expect.  Watching the
> program's memory usage with top, it slowly creeps up and up and up -
> even after @bigarray is undef'd.
>
> Right now I'm looking at the "stuff".  Something in there must be
> holding on to elements in @bigarray.

ouch. i've been there. you might try putting the routine in a block of
its own. that should add extra scoping and yet another place for that
array to get cleared.

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Matt Cashner
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